Real estate titles under cloud due to estate tax reports
Notices from Olympia warn that thousands of real estate titles are clouded because estate administrators and heirs failed to file required appraisements with the state tax commission. The 1907 law mandates sworn reports whether liable for inheritance tax and many cases involve lawyers’ negligence. The tax commission is reviewing records across counties, with many estates found delinquent since 1909 in King county and others in Clarke Thurston Pacific Mason and Whatcom.
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Olympia
State Tax Commission
King County
Clarke
Thurston
Pacific
Mason
Whatcom
Tax Commission
The Credit Man's Dream
A gray merchant recalls a Christmas vision of an angel guiding him toward glory The scene shifts to Hell where debtors from his career suffer as the merchant longs to watch Yet the angel directs him toward the Pearly Gates and the merchant declines preferring heaven as is
Taxpayers Organize to Cut 1916 Tax Levies Across Washington
Taxpayers form broad movement to reduce city and county tax levies in Washington state. Groups press budget bodies to drop unnecessary expenditures and end municipal and county enterprises driving higher levies. Citizens urged to attend council and commission meetings to push for cuts.
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Washington
High Schools Debate Monroe Doctrine Across Six Divisions
State superintendent Mrs Josephine Preston announces six divisions A through F to coordinate district contests for deciding which high schools will debate the Monroe Doctrine as part of the permanent U S foreign policy. Division F led by C Kingston lists high schools Cashmere Wenatchee Creston Davenport Harrington Odessa Reardan Sprague Wilbur Hillyard Spokane Okanogan Omak Conconully Republic and Waterville.
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Josephine Preston
United States
C. S. Kingston
Cheney Normal School
Cashmere
Wenatchee
Creston
Davenport
Harrington
Odesa
Rearden
Sprague
Wilbur
Hillyard
Spokane
Okanogan
Omak
Conconully
Republic
Waterville High School
Wage floor set for hotel and restaurant workers
The industrial welfare commission enacts a new minimum wage of 9 per week for adult female workers over 18 in hotels and restaurants, except waitresses, and 7.50 per week for minors of both sexes. The rule takes effect on the 17th, with about 3,300 employers notified of the impact.
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Industrial Welfare Commission
Sunflowers Prove Valuable Agricultural Crop
Sunflowers are an important yet underused crop advised by Dr. Cardiff of the State Experiment Station Pullman. They yield high oil and protein seeds, make good silage with corn and legumes, but exhaust soil nitrogen requiring fertilizer after successive plantings. They can be grown where corn thrives, tolerate earlier planting, and have uses in oil, cooking, peanuts in Russia, and paper production in Europe.
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Pullman
Cardiff
Russia
They Couldn't Fool Them Baby Boy News
A family story from the San Francisco Argonaut recounts a fourteen year old boy who learns his mother had a baby boy. He deceives his father by sending a telegram that reads I win, it’s a boy, revealing the prankish wit of youth.
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Johnny
San Francisco
Man Who Takes His Own Medicine is an Optimist
A nostalgia ad promotes Dr. King s New Discovery as a cure for colds. It argues optimists trust medicine to reach the cause of illness and deliver relief through the throat and airways. An exhortation to purchase a bottle today.
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Dr. King
Walla Walla Gains Repair Work From North Yakima
The O W R N Co will move a large part of its repair work from North Yakima to Walla Walla, increasing the city payroll by 2500 dollars per month and expanding local employment and activity.
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North Yakima
Walla Walla
Pointed Paragraphs of Life and Morals
The excerpt offers aphorisms on pessimism wealth and honesty with remarks on fortune telling temperance and spending. It contrasts lack of use for the poor with dignity in social exchange and warns that knowledge wisdom and appearances do not guarantee success or virtue.
Unique Washington Made Home Exhibit Planned for Seattle
The Manufacturers Association Exhibit and Exchange will build and maintain a permanent residence atop the Henry building in Seattle’s roof garden. The exhibit will feature a real lawn, fountains, and Washington made products throughout. It invites manufacturers statewide to contribute items used in a home to demonstrate every daily necessity is produced in Washington.
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Seattle
Manufacturers’ Association Exhibit and Exchange
Henry
Manufacturers
Washington
State Banks and Trust Companies Resources and Deposits Drop
State Banks and Trust Companies report combined resources of 130,924,011.17 with deposits totaling 90,915,258.11, down over 4 million from a year ago as confidence and investment shifts emerge. A. L. Melander of Washington State College criticizes inspectors and commissioners for wormy fruit condemnations affecting growers and consumer prices. Timber reserves in the Inland Empire touted as 200 years by Missoula forester Mason.
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A. L. Melander
Washington State College
California Fruit Growers’ Association
Washington
California
Inland Empire
Some Forms of Rheumatism Curable
A short medical-style note claims rheumatic pains in joints and muscles are curable with Sloan's liniment. It lists acute and chronic rheumatism, rheumatic headaches, sciatica, and lumbago as common forms and promotes two to three applications daily to relieve pain by penetration to the seat of trouble. A 25 cent bottle is advertised for emergency use.
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Peshastin
Holcomb
Leavenworth Creamery
Sloan
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Daggett
State Industrial Insurance Commission
National Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions
Glory’s Gate
Hades
Hell
Lake Wenatchee
Lake View Hotel
Leavenworth
Lake
Auto Stage
Winton
Wm. A. Nelson
Prop
Echo Office
Tra
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Mark
Willamette
Hirsch-Weis Manufacturing Company
Willamette Tent & Awning Co
Portland
Oregon
Weis
The
Echo
Tumwater Savings Bank
Pioneer Bank
Peach Blossom Flour
Wenatchee Milling Co
Wenatchee, Wash
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